Elizabeth: It's like they're accepting that they're a K-pop girl group, but they're you know,
unique in the way that they're changing things up.
Umu: Now you're reacting to JYP entertainment's new girl group ITZY, and their 2019 debut song called 'Dalla Dalla'.
The girl group's name in Korean translates to "It is, right?" which in this case means to have, as in, the girls have everything
we would want in a girl group.
The lyrics to 'Dalla Dalla'
support the idea of loving yourself for who you are no matter what others think.
This can be supported by the lyrics in the chorus:
"Just pretty but not attractive at all. I'm different from them. I'm different. Don't measure me by your standards alone. I love being myself".
I'm nobody else." The song is composed by Galactica and Athena.
Collin: Galactica and Athena, like the goddess? What?
Okay. Jarod: It's time to get with the times. It's 2019 now. Coillin: It's 500 BC. One, two, three.
Collin: Dude, these (heapdhones) are so good. Jarod: I love how like a lot of stuff likes to start with just like the raw sounds of whatever they're doing. Like so many
music videos do that. Collin: Yeah. Yeah.
Jarod: Like the ding of the elevator. It's a very satisfying sound. Collin: Oh, dude.
James: They got a camera in that dressing room?
Good.
Ooh, I like this.
Lindsey: Ooh!
Davis: It's just when a song immediately establishes a tempo and a groove, it's just hard not to like it.
Like, they're just immediately like, you know how it's gonna be.
Yeah.
Kevin: Ooh!
We got the cowbell!
Lindsey: This is such a bop, I cannot like...
Davis: But also they're living these super extravagant lives, and while they're saying they don't care,
it's just like
reinforcing that message, so that's super cool. Lindsey: They're just doing them, you know? Davis: Yeah, exactly, and like, that's really cool. Lindsey: Just, livin' life.
Davis: Look at all the cool sh*t they get to do.
Jarod: All right, I like this much better.
Peyton: Oh, it's got that kind of like start minor and then end major thing goin' on.
Kevin: Wow, flat 6. Isaac: Okay. Kevin: Flat 7.
Elizabeth: Oh, that's so interesting.
Cuz the chorus feels like very traditional girl group K-pop to me,
but like, the intro and the verse in the pre-chorus was super funky and very rhythmic and...
yeah.
Isaac: Oh.
What?
Kevin: Oh, that's a...Oh, I like her
not-robotic rapping tone with the triplet. It's like she's actually talking in triplet.
Elizabeth: I can't decide if this is the bridge.
James: No, I don't think so. Elizabeth: No, I think it was just like a brief interlude
James: Yeah. Elizabeth: that was different. Or it could be that it wasn't like...
That could have been the verse, and they just like super changed the format of the verse.
Lindsey: Yeah, see, now it's the chorus, and you can tell because it's major. Davis: Yeah.
So rest from... Lindsey: It's major because they love being themselves! Davis: Yeah.
Jarod: See, I like the sound that they're starting to get in like the chorus
I think, right here, but it's like, I feel like I would just like them to expand on that.
Isaac: Whoa!
Kevin: Oh, this bridge is great.
Elizabeth: Yeah, this is definitely the bridge, and this still feels very K-pop.
It's like they're accepting that they're a K-pop girl group, but they're, you know,
like unique in the way in they're changing things up.
Kevin: Oh, my gosh.
Davis: Oh, my goodness. Lindsey: Okay.
Collin: Where the hell did we go?
No, like really, what?
Um...
Collin: And we're back! Okay. Jarod: And we're back. And we're back. Don't worry. Collin: That was strange. What?
Kevin: Oh!
Wow!
Elizabeth: Okay, so this is the chorus, but like the last version the chorus, but like,
all of the harmony and all of the... James: All of the...mixed together, yeah. Elizabeth: Yeah, and it's become completely rhythmic again.
James: Nice.
Lindsey: Stop.
Why do you show these things to me? I don't need more music in my life.
Umu: Lindsey, there's no such thing as too much music.
Lindsey: No, the problem is that there is too much out there. Davis: That's true. Lindsey: And there's too much out there that I like
Umu: Uh-huh. Lindsey: and you bring in more...
I don't have time for all of this!
Umu: Or money.
Lindsey: Or money!
Kevin: Yay! Okay, that was very exciting. You can argue that there's a lot of formulas in K-pop,
but it's really cool to see the formula mixed in a new way, and in a way that's very exciting and unexpected and twisty,
but yet still not convoluted and still appealing, you know, to the most pop
sensibilities, cuz that's what I'm in for.
Isaac: I thought it was so cool.
Isaac: Like you go from some heavy house bass was just going at it,
at your ears, and then all of a sudden the light treble of the chorus was just...It was so
refreshing every time you hit the chorus, cuz if you listen to house, or dubstep, or anything where it's EDM related,
I don't know, it can get pretty dry if you don't add anything else.
But for them, to avoid that, they just added a different genre,
so it's like a lot lighter. And then there's that like...oh my goodness, it was like a psychedelic trip.
Everything was, whoosh,
you're flying through these genres, it's like everything's mending together, and even the visuals was just like, wow, some stellar stuff.
Umu: Looks like you have lots of thoughts.
Charlotte: It's like it's not like I didn't like it, but I didn't...I don't know.
Peyton: Didn't love it. Charlotte: I didn't like it, but I didn't also not like it. I don't know if it was like sensory overload with the video,
so I don't know if I would have a different opinion if I'd just listened to the song rather than seeing the video.
I don't know,
I also just didn't feel like...we had kind of like the bad girl concept,
but then it was like a really cutesy upbeat chorus.
I was just very confused as to the vibe of the whole group aesthetic. I'm like, on the fence.
Elizabeth: So I assume the fact that they took a traditional pop song format and
messed with it is
significant. James: Yeah, it goes with the theme. I thought it made it really unique.
I mean, we immediately picked up on the the difference between the two, but the way they
kind of like stated both of them in different sections and then kind of put them together at the end.
I can't be mad at it, because I think it kind of pushes the the meaning of the song, which is
you take something that everyone wants to see in this cookie cutter way, and you say no, I'm actually not this way,
but I still love myself. You know, I think it drives the message pretty well. Elizabeth: Okay, so Charles Ives,
James: Oh, no. Elizabeth: Charles Ives was a
modernist composer who wrote in a style that we call musical collage. His thing was
about mixing different styles, and forms, and different
musical references. So like, you know, his piano concerto 'The Alcotts', it has quotations of Beethoven's Fifth in it,
which like has nothing to do with it at all. James: Yeah. Elizabeth: Well, I mean
musicologically it does, but like,
like hearing it,
it doesn't. So like, this is kind of a thing that composers have been messing with for a while, like mish-mashing, mixing up different
styles and forms in order to like kind of make the listeners second-guess themselves. James: Yeah.
Elizabeth: So, if Charles Ives can do it, they can do it. James: Yeah, and I mean the same goes with any craft.
We're all kind of standing on the shoulders of giants. So when we talk about like what musical borrowing is and how that's happened throughout history,
composers will borrow whether it's genres or specific techniques, you know,
people will generally tend to borrow, you know, at their free will, but the product
you know, in the end, has to be better than what came before, in a way,
for it to really be relevant, and I think that this song definitely did that. I didn't think it was, you know incohesive,
I thought it was I thought it was a nice blend. I thought it was great.
Jarod: I suppose this would be a good kind of like clubbing song maybe,
just for a raw just like, jump element.
But, you have this kind of just like super, just kind of like, superficial party vibe,
but then they kind of show, it's like, we can sing, and I would like to hear a little bit more of that.
Especially when they get into like the lyrical little section, I thought that was pretty cool.
And then yeah, they do that really cool moment where they pop off into that, you know, that uncharted territory.
But I feel like, you see the potential for more of that and you want more of that,
but then you just get confetti thrown in your face. Collin: Well, that was a really good harmonic idea.
Like that was really cool. And especially that they chose the wub
sound to pull it off, and you could actually hear it. (sound off camera) Collin: Yeah, that! Yeah.
It was you!
That was really cool.
Jarod: It's just, like I feel like they had just two very stark different like directions, trying to throw it into one song. Collin: Yeah.
Jarod: It's just like, pick one and go with it, you know? I wasn't convinced it was a party song,
I wasn't convinced that it was like a musical song. Collin: Oh, that's a good point. Okay, yeah.
Lindsey: I feel like the verses we're kind of talking like about what they don't need,
and so that was like, you know,
they were just like, we don't need this, and we don't need this, and then the chorus goes into the major key and they're like,
cuz I love myself! And it's just like hell, yeah, you do.
Davis: Yeah. Lindsey: You know what I mean? Davis: I think musically like I think musically what accompanies that in the verses
is...I feel like a word like aggressive is too weird,
so I don't wanna say it's like aggressive but it's like... Lindsey: Powerful. Davis: It's like the mode is different. Lindsey: Intense. You could say intense. Davis: It's intense, it's powerful.
Davis: Yeah. Lindsey: No, aggressive in a good way. I understand what you're saying. Davis: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
And so followed by the chorus, which is again, like more celebratory, so the music reflects that. I feel like...
Lindsey: Also, they're beautiful.
I don't care what anybody says
If they think they're
not,
then they are wrong.
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